In a way it shouldn’t work. It should just be tacky. And tacky it is. Tacky it has always been. But like handful of other power metal acts who basically overdo it, the German Powerwolf […]
Ennui, despite the french-sounding name (from what Google tells me, it translates to ‘Boredom’), represents a musical duo hailing from Georgia, almost as far east in Europe as one can venture. This particular duo first […]
Veld is the name of a Belarus-based Death Metal trio that has been active on and off for the last two decades – With their first release seeing the light of day seventeen years ago. […]
Killing Tyranny is not a band that I have ever come across, but the cover art of their second release, Church of the Twisted Prophet, did a very good job at immediately drawing my attention. […]
In the Rainfall is the debut album of an, at the time, Mexican duo who specialized in a very slow, very melancholic take on the Death Metal genre. The album contains nine tracks, each averaging […]
Appollonia is a French one-man band, one that draws inspiration from such diverse sources as Alice in Chains, Queens of the Stone Age and Mastodon; The premise behind it being to merge the heavy sounds […]
Cor Scorpii was created the same year that legendary Windir sadly ceased to exist: This is by no means a coincidence, since three of the members of said legendary band transitioned over into this impressive […]
H.P. Lovecraft is, in my humble opinion at least, one of the more predominant writers of the early 18th century. Not only did he manage to create an entirely new sub-genre of horror – One […]
Hyrgal is a French Black Metal trio originally founded back in 2008 where they released their first Split album with the band Kairn. After a brief hiatus the band returned in full force two years […]
Norwegian underground occult hard rockers Acârash have just released their debut full-length album entitled In Chaos Becrowned, but before we dwell a bit more into this 8-tracker album, let me introduce the band for you. […]
Finland might be known as the land of metal, often in connection to black, death metal and hard rock. Egokills are a bit different, as their sound can best be described as laid-back rock & […]
I do love it when I happen to come across a band that I would normally have little to no chance to stumble upon crosses my path anyway (especially when it turns out to be […]
Three years ago I was given the opportunity to review the third full-length release from the French Black Metal band Moonreich. Needless to say, I was immediately hooked – So much so that I practically […]
The rather unusual name given to this Old-school Black Metal band acutally has a very straight-forward and somewhat logical antecedent: The trio that makes up the band each comes from rather famous Black Metal bands; […]
SpiteFuel is a Heavy Rock band from Heilbronn, Southern Germany. The quintet was founded in 2016 and now, after just one year’s time they are back with the successor to the highly acclaimed debut Second […]
Åskog (pronounced as “oah-skoog”) is a newly formed (2020) black metal duo hailing from Vänersborg, Sweden. Varþnaþer is their debut full-length containing eight tracks. Varþnaþer follows their 2020 Demo EP entitled Varg. On this debut […]
Yet our fortunate ears can already lay claim to a flood of top notch techdeath releases. We’ve heard Gojira exploding into our spring with Fortitude, greeted new tracks from Vilthjarta, and Cannibal Corpse have offered […]
I believe most regular readers of our webzine are already familiar with a Feradur band since we’ve also conducted a short interview with the band prior to the release of this new EP. For those […]
Recording cover songs was for decades a rare occasion, but then with the rise of digital music platforms and social media, it seems that there isn’t a song out there that hasn’t been covered in […]
Applause of a Distant Crowd, the sophomore release by Danish prog band VOLA was an impressive display of quality as well as clear direction, something their debut hinted, but didn’t live up to itself. Now […]
Borgne, the Swiss Industrial Black Metal duo, has previously been on my radar – Most recently back in March of last year where they released ‘Y’. And, upon getting my hands on and giving Temps […]
Canadian collective Kafirun have unleashed a first-rate spring time single for all lovers of black metal. The Sea, The Serpent and the Scythe marks the first hint of what is to come from Their eponymous […]
Sixgun Renegades are a four-piece hard rock band from Espoo, Finland. We’ve already presented our readers to their 2018 self-titled debut. Now, the quartet is making a comeback with their sophomore album entitled Push. Push […]
Evil and Devine is the debut album from a brand-new project based around Stryper singer Michael Sweet and L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns. On paper, the collaboration makes sense, much like Sweet’s collaboration with Dokken […]
While this global pandemic seems to have taken a heavy toll on many of us by more or less uprooting everything we know and completely flipping our sides upside down, it has become clear that […]